Re: unable to delete corrupted mail box on cyrus v2.3.16

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Thanks Sebastian. For now I prefer avoiding an outage, because users would notice :)


> On 11 Jan 2016, at 16:05, Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 11. Januar 2016 um 15:51:39 +0100 Sophie Loewenthal via Info-cyrus <info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I have a broken mailbox that I would like to delete.
>> 
>> This is Cyrus v2.3.16 on CentOS 6.
>> 
>> I tried reconstructing the mailbox from scratch ( Because I suspect this
>> was manually deleted from disc ).
>> 
>> 
>> mkdir imap-store/spool/imap/domain/example.com/user/kat^long
>> cd imap-store/spool/imap/domain/example.com/user/kat^long
>> chmod 755 .
>> chown cyrus:mail .
>> touch cyrus.header
>> chown cyrus:mail cyrus.header
>> 
>> log into cyradm:
>> localhost> lam user/kat.long
>> kat.long@xxxxxxxxxxx lrswipkxtecda
>> localhost> reconstruct -r user/kae.long
>> reconstruct: Mailbox has an invalid format
>> localhost> dm user/kat.long
>> deletemailbox: Permission denied
>> 
>> Names and domain names replaced with false entries.
>> 
>> How could I remove this?
> 
> If everything else fails, you can always stop Cyrus, export the mailboxes.db file using "ctl_mboxlist -d", delete the mailbox from the export, and import it using "ctl_mboxlist -u". After that you can just delete the folder from the file system and start Cyrus again.
> 
> Sebastian
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